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Summer Squash Frittata for Two
Serve this frittata for breakfast, brunch, or a simple dinner. Italians serve it at room temperature, but you may also serve it hot or cold. Garnish with cherry tomatoes or salsa if you like.

Soak cucumbers whole in salt water overnight. Next morning slice cucumbers, break cauliflower into pieces and add pickling onions with ends cut off and skins off outside. Add sugar and vinegar to pan of cucumbers. Add water to cover all. Add pickling spice bag.
Bring to boil and boil until cucumbers are tender. Dip out some of the juice to make paste of flour, dry mustard and turmeric. Add to pickles and cook until thick. You need to keep tasting. You may need to add more sugar or vinegar to your taste and maybe need to add more turmeric for color. Put in hot jars and seal.
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Layer the vegetables - the cucumber, onion, red pepper, and cauliflower in a bowl with the salt. Cover with cold water and let stand overnight or about 12 hours. Drain and rinse well with cold water. In a saucepan, combine sugar and vinegar. Heat to boiling. Mix the remaining ingredients, the flour and seasoning. Add some of the boiling vinegar mixture, cooled, and mix well. Add this to the rest of the boiling vinegar mixture and mix in well. Add drained vegetables to this sauce. Cook 15-30 minutes. Pack in hot sterilized jars and seal at once.
...............................Grandma's Mustard Pickles

Cut in small pieces and soak overnight in brine made of 1/2 cup salt and 2 quarts water. In the morning, bring to a boil and drain.
Make a dressing of: 2 c. sugar 3 tsp. dry mustard 2 tsp. turmeric 1 c. vinegar 1 c. water unless vinegar is very weak

Mix dry ingredients together. Then mix in vinegar and water. Cook until thick, stirring all the time or it will burn. When paste has thickened, stir in the pickles and heat. Pour into canning jars and seal.
............................Zucchini Pickles
Ingredients:
2 pounds zucchini or summer squash, sliced, about 7 cups
2 medium onions, halved and sliced, about 2 cups
1/4 cup salt
2 cups white vinegar
1 to 2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon celery seed
1 teaspoon turmeric
2 teaspoons mustard seed
Preparation:
Place squash and onions in a large non-reactive pot; add the salt and enough water to cover. Let stand for 2 hours; drain well. In a 2-quart saucepan, bring remaining ingredients to a boil; pour over the squash and onions.

Never buying those cedar planks again. I didn't think it made much of a difference in taste with the salmon. They were a waste of money.

That is good to hear!! Because I nearly bought some cedar planks at Costco's today, and I decided not to spend the money. Sounds like a gimmich to me.

I always use charcoal, and/or wood, (never gas.. gag gag!!!), so I think the flavor is pretty good already.

While we are asking for recipes.. anybody have a good zucchinni recipe? We had a family reunion, and someone brought some sort of zucchinni spears...I don't know if it was grilled. Probably was since we were all camping out. I suspect it was drizzled with olive oil, garlic, parmesan cheese.. etc. Anybody have a recipe similar to that? It was sooo good, and I never found the recipe, or (with the size of my family) even who made it.

spellcheck has alerted on gimmich, parmesan, zucchinni, and spellcheck. Good grief.. I even tried several spellings on them before thinking, "bite me".